SUBSAFE Engineering Philosophy
This certification was created in response to the loss of 14 submarines in non-combat scenarios.
What is SUBSAFE?
This disaster was caused due to the failure of an O-ring due to temperature.
What is the space shuttle Challenger?
Modern-day invention that could potentially reduce traffic accidents but also has safety risks.
What are driverless cars?
This aircraft company has recently exhibited a poor culture of safety.
What is Boeing?
The theory that risk will never be eliminated from high-risk systems
What is Normal Accident Theory?
He was responsible for creating the SUBSAFE certification system.
Who is Admiral Hyman Rickover?
At this place, a near disaster caused large public fear and much more rigorous oversight by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
What is Three Mile Island?
Identify one limitation of driverless cars.
What is bad weather, cyber security, public acceptance, ….
This term is defined as the gradual and sometimes unconscious acceptance of insufficient or unexpected outcomes based on a lack of prior catastrophe.
What is the normalization of deviance?
A strong example of an emerging technology surrounded by public discourses of risk, particularly in the contexts of climate change, energy sources, and risk & safety.
What is nuclear power?
This submarine sinking led to the creation of the SUBSAFE certification.
What is the USS Thresher?
What factors exacerbated the Chernobyl Disaster?
Secrecy and delayed evacuations
This administration is responsible for saving lives, preventing injuries, and reducing economic costs due to road traffic crashes, through education, research, safety standards, and enforcement activity.
What is NHSTA?
Innovation in safety that focused on the consequences of many interrelated factors, enhanced communication, and empowered employees to control safety.
What is a Checklist?
Identify one of Fleddermann’s factors in evaluating risk.
What is:
1. Voluntary vs. involuntary risk
2. Short-term vs. long-term consequences
3. Expected probability
4. Reversible effects
5. Threshold levels for risk
6. Delayed vs. immediate risk
List one part of the SUBSAFE Engineering Philosophy.
Avoid committing to untried systems and concepts
• Ensure adequate redundancy in design so plant can accommodate equipment and system failures that will inevitably occur
• Require suppliers to conduct extensive life testing of critical system components
• Test new reactor designs by use of a land-based prototype of same design
• Extensive analysis, full scale mock ups, rigorous testing
• Concentrate on designing, building and operating the plant to prevent accidents, not just coping with accidents
This disaster was caused by the energy company not planning enough fail-safes in the design. This led to a failure caused by natural disasters.
What is Fukushima?
Name the two experts who gave testimonies in the Senate hearing on driverless cars.
Who are Mary Cummings and Chris Urmson?
Simple yet effective tool deployed by the World Health Organization to improve communications between surgeons and other medical staff
What is the Surgical Safety Checklist?
Even though there were negligible effects on public health, the Three Mile Island incident still halted the growth of nuclear power. Identify the reason for this effect.
What is a legacy of public mistrust?